What Bird is That?: A Guide to the Birds of Australia |
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... species according to their environment - an important rule . Such record of observations spread over several years will give a good indication of the movements of the different species ; and when used in conjunction with records from ...
... species according to their environment - an important rule . Such record of observations spread over several years will give a good indication of the movements of the different species ; and when used in conjunction with records from ...
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... species . It has a melodious call , and also utters a loud and deep gutteral note . Food : native fruits and berries . NEST . An open and rather shallow structure , composed almost en- tirely of strong , curly vine tendrils and creeping ...
... species . It has a melodious call , and also utters a loud and deep gutteral note . Food : native fruits and berries . NEST . An open and rather shallow structure , composed almost en- tirely of strong , curly vine tendrils and creeping ...
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... species inhabiting our seas . It is similar in habits and economy to the other species of Terns . Breeds in large colonies on islands off the coasts throughout its range . NEST . A depression in the sand or earth . EGGS . One ...
... species inhabiting our seas . It is similar in habits and economy to the other species of Terns . Breeds in large colonies on islands off the coasts throughout its range . NEST . A depression in the sand or earth . EGGS . One ...
Contents
BIRDS OF THE LAKES Streams and SwamPS | 217 |
BIRDS OF THE OCEAN AND SHORE | 251 |
BIRDS INTRODUCED AND ESTABLISHED IN AUSTRALIA | 291 |
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What Bird is That?: A Guide to the Birds of Australia Neville William Cayley No preview available - 1931 |
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Aru Islands August to December Bass Strait big scrubs bird Breeding-season brown call-note called Cape York Cape York Peninsula cobwebs composed of dried composed of sticks cup-shaped structure DISTRIBUTION dome-shaped structure dried grasses eastern EGGS eucalypts feet Female Food freckled frequenting chiefly Gould ground Guinea habits and economy herbage hollow limb Honey-eater inhabiting insects insects of various Islands larger end larvæ Latham limb or hole low bush mangroves Molucca Islands native fruits nectar NEST north-western Australia northern Australia Northern Queensland Northern Territory NOTES numbers October to January pairs or flocks pairs or small pale Parrot plants purplish-brown purplish-grey Queensland reddish-brown rootlets scrub-lands seeds of grasses September to December Silver-eye similar in habits small flocks South Australia South Wales southern species spinifex spotted and blotched strips of bark swamps Tasmania Temminck tree twigs underlying markings Usually in flocks Usually in pairs Usually placed Usually singly uttered Western Australia Zealand